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Chapter 4: Sensation & Perception. Sensation: receiving physical stimulation, encoding the input into the nervous system; The processes by which our sensory organs receive information from the environment. Perception: the process by which people select, organize, and interpret (recognize) the sensory information, the act of understanding what ...
What is Sensation and Perception? Chapter Outline: I. Do our Senses Convey Reality? II. Why is Sensation and Perception a Part of Reality? III. If Senses do not Convey Reality, What do our Senses do? a. The Concept of Natural Selection. b. The Role of Natural Selection in Our Senses IV. A Historical Perspective. a. The Beginnings. b.
LESSON 1 is an overview of sensation and perception. The main purpose of the lesson is to give students the vocabulary for the study of sensation and perception. Lesson 1 connects these concepts to real-life situations such as hearing or vision tests. LESSON 2 describes the visual and auditory systems. This lesson concerns
After reading this unit, you will be able to: differentiate between sensation and perception; explain the nature of perception and its scope; explain the process of perception; identify the factors affecting perception; describe the laws of perceptual organization; of perceptual constancies; andexplain.
This handbook surveys the field of perception, including vision, hearing, taste, olfaction, and cutaneous sensibility. Covering a field as vast as perception in one volume is a chal-
constance classen observes: “sensory perception is a cultural, as well as a physical, act [s]ight, hearing, taste, touch, and smell are not only means of apprehending physical phenomena, but also avenues for the transmission of cultural values” (1997: 401).
The behavioral approach views sensation and perception as in volving a discriminative response, and proceeds to identify, as sug gested by Garner, Hake and Ericksen (1956), Graham (1958),
